THE House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability on Monday approved a motion to formally write a letter to the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and Office of the President “strongly” recommending a stop to the investigation of doctors prescribing Ivermectin on Covid-19 patients.
Deputy Speaker Bernadette Herrera, who moved for the approval of the motion, said these doctors just want Ivermectin to be accessible to all Filipinos.
“I strongly move that we …recommend or urge the PRC to stop looking into revoking the licenses of our doctors who are prescribing Ivermectin due to lack of evidence on their part,” said Herrera, an Ivermectin advocate, during the hearing of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability.
For his part, Anakalusugan Rep. Mike Defensor said the Office of the President should now intervene to stop the probe against these doctors who have prescribed Ivermectin and those who will do so in the future.
The Department of Health earlier said it received reports of alleged invalid prescriptions given to individuals during the “Ivermectin Pan-three” conducted recently by Defensor and Sagip Rep. Rodante Marcoleta in Quezon City.
With this, the DOH said it will officially endorse the reports to the PRC to investigate their veracity, and impose sanctions if necessary, based on
existing law.
Defensor admitted that prescriptions for Ivermectin handed out during the drug distribution did not contain a physician’s name and a license number.
If there was any irregularity in his and Marcoleta’s project, Defensor asked health authorities to make them, lawmakers, accountable—not the doctors.
Last week, Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug, was granted its first Certificate of Product Registration (CPR) by the Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The CPR was issued to local pharmaceutical company Lloyd Laboratories, Inc., thus enabling the company to manufacture, distribute, and sell the drug for human use, but under specified conditions—not for Covid treatment.
Based on the CPR issued to Lloyd Laboratories, Ivermectin will be made available as a prescription-only drug in 3mg, 6mg., 9mg., 12 mg., and 15 mg. doses.
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